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Sukhvinder Shahi

University of Missouri, Columbia
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My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: Platonism
Aesthetic experience Accept: sui generis
Aesthetic value Accept: objective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Accept wisdom
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept beauty and taste
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism There is no fact of the matter
Belief or credence Lean towards: credence
Capital punishment Accept: impermissible
Causation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Chinese room Accept: understands
Concepts Accept: nativism
Consciousness Lean towards: dualism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Accept: anthropocentric
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: no
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Free will Accept: libertarianism
Gender Accept: social
Gender categories Accept: eliminate
God Accept: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: no
Human genetic engineering Agnostic/undecided
Hume Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards naturalist
  • Lean towards skeptic
Immortality There is no fact of the matter
Interlevel metaphysics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Lean towards: two worlds
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept a combination of answers:
  • Neutral towards contextualism
  • Neutral towards invariantism
  • Reject relativism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Accept: non-Humean
Logic Accept: classical
Material composition Lean towards: universalism
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Lean towards: internalism
Meta-ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Metaphilosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Method in history of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards analytic/rational reconstruction
  • Lean towards contextual/historicist
Method in political philosophy Accept: non-ideal theory
Mind Agnostic/undecided
Mind uploading Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral judgment Lean towards: non-cognitivism
Moral motivation Agnostic/undecided
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Skipped
Newcomb's problem Accept: two boxes
Normative concepts Agnostic/undecided
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Lean against cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Lean against flies
  • Lean against worms
  • Lean against plants
  • Lean against particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Reject future AI systems
Ought implies can Agnostic/undecided
Perceptual experience Lean towards: representationalism
Personal identity Lean towards: psychological view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept linguistic philosophy
  • Lean against conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept experimental philosophy
  • Neutral towards formal philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept knowledge only of forms
  • Lean towards knowledge also of concrete things
Political philosophy Accept: egalitarianism
Politics Accept: socialism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Accept: Kantian
Principle of sufficient reason Agnostic/undecided
Proper names Agnostic/undecided
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Agnostic/undecided
Propositions Lean towards: nonexistent
Quantum mechanics Agnostic/undecided
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Agnostic/undecided
Response to external-world skepticism Agnostic/undecided
Science Agnostic/undecided
Semantic content Agnostic/undecided
Sleeping beauty Agnostic/undecided
Spacetime Agnostic/undecided
Statue and lump Agnostic/undecided
Teletransporter Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Temporal ontology Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject causal
  • Reject descriptive
  • Reject deflationary
Time Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Time travel The question is too unclear to answer
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions The question is too unclear to answer
Truth Lean towards: epistemic
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Values in science Lean towards: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept a combination of answers:
  • Reject objective list
  • Reject hedonism/experientialism
  • Reject desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean against late
  • Neutral towards early
Zombies Accept: conceivable but not metaphysically possible